This isn’t a Junji Ito book – his contribution is limited to the cover art and a short introduction.

However, as with a lot of Ito’s stories, these are clever ideas with excellent art, that almost all fall apart somewhere in the storytelling. There were four stories that I can remember without cheating the day after reading the book, which is a pretty good hit rate (two American and two Japanese, as it turns out). None of them qualify as classics, and even a couple of the ones I liked felt like they were walking well-travelled ground.

It’s nothing I’d recommend to someone else (almost any of Ito’s anthologies is stronger than this collection) but I didn’t dislike it. The review from my teenager/manga nerd is similar: “I kinda liked it, the art was cool.”